Featuring new works made from a wide variety of materials including organic hemp canvas, raw oil paint, crimson velvet, marshmallows, canvas tarpaulins, 24k gold leaf, Kikkoman low sodium soya sauce, fluorescent aerosol paint, Levi’s 501’s, red wine bottles, and polyester fibrefill —all works were produced over the past three years, with the new punk-elegant mosaics being the most recent.

An exhibition list will be made available with the use of a QR code and there will be print-outs distributed at the front of the gallery.

Alan Belcher (b. Toronto 1957) is a local, self-taught, senior gay white male artist.
His concept based work is decidedly multi-layered and object orientated. Recognized in the past as an originator of a tactile fusion of photography and object-making, a transparency of vision and simplicity of fabrication with a concentrated regard for materials remain hallmarks of his serial productions. Belcher is known for a directness and a sharp simplicity when approaching his subject matter. A sense of humour, a reverence for both a Povera and Pop sensibility, as well as a hands-on approach; invade much of his work.

Alan Belcher has held solo exhibitions at contemporary galleries in New York, Toronto, Montréal, Chicago, Los Angeles, London, Milan, Torino, Köln, Stockholm, Zürich, Dijon, and Tokyo. This will be his third exhibition at MKG127.

Works by Alan Belcher are held in many public collections including the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Morris & Helen Belkin Art Gallery at UBC (Vancouver), Le Consortium (Dijon), Musee des Beaux-Arts (Montréal), Deste Foundation (Athens), Fotomuseum Winterthur (Zurich), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Chase Manhattan Bank, Credit Suisse Collection, Dropbox Headquarters (San Francisco), and Musée Nicéphore Niépce (Chalon-sur-Saône, France) —as well as numerous prominent private collections.